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Manifest Destinies Second Edition\nby Laura E. Gomez\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Laura E. Gomez\nTitle: Manifest Destinies Second Edition\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Ethnic studies\nPublisher: New York University Press\nEdition: 2nd edition\nISBN-13: 9781479894284\nISBN-10: 1479894281\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nAn essential resource for understanding the complex history of Mexican Americans and racial classification in the United States Manifest Destinies tells the story of the original Mexican Americansthe people living in northern Mexico in 1846 during the onset of the Mexican American War. The war abruptly came to an end two years later, and 115,000 Mexicans became American citizens overnight. Yet their status as full-fledged Americans was tenuous at best..